Decompression sickness (DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases...

To prevent or minimize decompression sickness, divers must properly plan and monitor decompression. Divers follow a decompression model to safely allow...

analysis into the study of decompression sickness in 1982. Albert A. Bühlmann published Decompression–Decompression sickness in 1984. Bühlmann recognised...

Inner ear decompression sickness, (IEDCS) or audiovestibular decompression sickness is a medical condition of the inner ear caused by the formation of...

are not generally considered barotrauma. Decompression illness is a term that includes decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism caused by lung...

also avoid complications due to sub-clinical decompression injury. The symptoms of decompression sickness are known to be caused by damage resulting from...

of decompression sickness in 5.3% of cases by the U.S. Navy as reported by Powell, 2008 including isobaric decompression sickness. Decompression sickness...

pressures. Decompression obligation for a given dive profile must be calculated and monitored to ensure that the risk of decompression sickness is controlled...

Decompression Illness (DCI) comprises two different conditions caused by rapid decompression of the body. These conditions present similar symptoms and...

of solution too quickly during decompression, they form bubbles in the tissues which can cause decompression sickness ("the bends"), a harmful and potentially...

decompress divers as well as treat injuries. Pressurized tunnel boring machines: just as the original term for "the bends" or "decompression sickness"...

equivalent decompression may result in decompression sickness. Repetitive diving, multiple ascents within a single dive, and surface decompression procedures...

Hypobaric decompression is the reduction in ambient pressure below the normal range of sea level atmospheric pressure. Altitude decompression is hypobaric...

profile which, according to the programmed decompression algorithm, will give a low risk of decompression sickness. A secondary function is to record the...

The US Navy has used several decompression models from which their published decompression tables and authorized diving computer algorithms have been...

or fail to pressurize at all. Such decompression may be classed as explosive, rapid, or slow: Explosive decompression (ED) is violent and too fast for air...

buoyancy control, but when long decompression stops at specific depths are required, the risk of decompression sickness is increased by depth variations...

disorder Beriberi Decompression sickness occurs during rapid ascent, spanning 20 or more feet (typically from underwater). Decompression sickness may express...

effect on decompression. IEDCS is known to occur during ascent after some deep dives, but the causes are uncertain. Inner ear decompression sickness is known...

the partial pressures of the gases present. Initial uses were in decompression sickness, and it also effective in certain cases of gas gangrene and carbon...

hours after a dive. The principal conditions are decompression illness (which covers decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism), nitrogen narcosis...

usually obvious and may present quite differently from decompression sickness. Decompression sickness: Inert gas bubbles form in the bloodstream if the gas...

(1988); Report on Decompression Illness and Diving Fatalities (based on data collected in 1987). Dovenbarger, JA (1989); Report on Decompression Illness and...

be used as a tool to accelerate in-water decompression stops or to decrease the risk of decompression sickness and thus prolong a dive (a common misconception...

Ratio decompression (usually referred to in abbreviated form as ratio deco) is a technique for calculating decompression schedules for scuba divers engaged...

the full symptoms thereof. Decompression sickness may also be controlled by a full-pressure suit as for altitude sickness. Barotrauma As the aircraft...

The symptoms generally resolve during decompression and require no further treatment. Decompression sickness is a condition caused by dissolved gases...

Another means by which sonar could be hurting cetaceans is a form of decompression sickness. This was first raised by necrological examinations of 14 beaked...

underwater dive time by reducing the decompression requirement, or reducing the risk of decompression sickness (also known as the bends). The two most...

(33 ft) of depth. The principal conditions are: decompression illness (which covers decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism); nitrogen narcosis;...